Site Planning and Design – Conservation Subdivision Design – Land Use Planning
Assisting municipalities in preparing for growth by developing a "Community Planning Vision" — the most concise and comprehensive foundation for new or updated zoning in NYS - a guide to implementing "Smart Growth" while retaining the rural character, natural and historic resources your community loves most.
— Jeanie Gleisner, MSLA APA
Town Planning Associates
With over 16 years of experience managing the Comprehensive Planning & Community Development Program at the Central New York Regional Planning & Development Board, Jeanie has deep experience working with private clients and municipalities across New York State revitalizing communities, developing Comprehensive Plans, Area Plans, Districts, Site Planning, and Site Design. Currently serving on NOAA's Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council as community liaison and voting member for Economic Development, her clients have included the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, Preservation League of New York State, private developers, museums, and historic landscape stewardship organizations.
Town Planning Associates assists municipalities to affordably develop Land Use Plans, Landscape Designs, Community Planning Visions (CPV); Subdivision Plans, Site Plans; Conservation Subdivision Design (CSD) process; Mapping; Overlay Districts; Planned Unit Developments; Zoning Strategy; Environmental Performance (good neighbor) policy; Signage Regulations; and Hamlet or Village design guidelines.
When development is knocking at your door, you may find the need to implement "smart growth" planning or zoning updates sooner than is possible through a lengthy Comprehensive Planning process which can require a year or more to complete.
We accelerate the planning and zoning update process by working collaboratively with municipalities to create and implement a summary comprehensive planning document called a "Community Planning Vision (CPV)". Developed specifically for use in rural towns and villages, a CPV includes a community input process that outlines the community's vision and focused goals for the future. The CPV can be formally adopted in the short term to guide local "smart growth" zoning and subdivision updates.
The CPV has its basis in County sustainability plans, adding local data collection, mapping, analysis, and a "community visioning workshop". With municipal adoption, the CPV becomes an official component of the municipality's comprehensive planning. Because it is developed quickly and affordably, the CPV makes smart land use regulatory (zoning and subdivision) changes possible in the shorter term, in advance of development applications.
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A CPV can be developed at the same time as an ongoing Comprehensive Planning effort, and can provide a basis for future planning efforts. The key advantage of a locally-adopted CPV is that developers are more likely to submit high quality proposals aligned with what the municipality and community have indicated they want to see in future development, and not what they don't want.
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*For more details on the CPV process, cost, etc., please contact us. We would be happy to meet with you or send you any information you need.